Women in the DR Congo suffer from Sexual and Gender-based Violence (SGBV) by different militia groups and civilians. According to UNFPA, 13,247 cases a year, and an average of 1,100 cases are reported each month in the country. One of the reasons for the highest sexual violence in the world is the notion of impunity on perpetrators, who, in the case of rebels, escape back to the jungle after committing the crime. However, there is an increasing number of women speaking out, trying to arrest the perpetrators. There are both military and civil courts in Goma that deal with rape cases, and without the DNA or age tests, the tribunals struggle ...

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Slab City has been created by a small but committed squatter’s community. It lies in the Colorado Desert in South Eastern California and takes its name from the concrete slabs that remain from an abandoned World War II base. It is a truly horrific and romantic landscape that commands residents to possess the same balance of beauty and beast. Unbearable temperature highs in the summer weed out the many who inhabit the free space in the winter, leaving only the most resilient, or the most unfortunate to become permanent residents. It is also these people who maintain the ad-hoc infrastructure that makes it such a desirable community to...

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Viviane Dalles was born in France in 1978. Passionate about the history of art, she studied applied art at the University Paul Valéry in Montpellier. In 1999 she entered the National School of Photography in Arles. After graduating, she worked in Paris at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation where she archived the famous photographer’s prints. Following that, at the Magnum agency. At the beginning of 2005, following the tsunami, she quit her job at the archives of the Magnum agency and bought herself a ticket to the Tamil Nadu region in India. Here she witnessed the victims’ lives as the media coverage faded out. She spe...

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In 1999, after 25 years of Indonesian rule, the people of East Timor went to the polls to vote in a referendum offering Independence or self-autonomy. The resistance and protracted guerrilla war that ensued Indonesia’s invasion in 1976 had resulted in an estimated 100 000 people dead and the East Timorese overwhelmingly voted for full independence. In response, military backed Militia, loyal to Indonesia, went on a rampage, destroying 70% of the country’s infrastructure and forcing an estimated 300 000 people across the border into Indonesian West Timor.

Order was returned after the intervention of the Australian...

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